Activities at Mount Vale Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from PAT dogs, entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Mount Vale Care Home
Coronation talk
Across our services Residents had a wonderful time participating in an interactive virtual talk with Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy at the University of Westminster, where we delved into the rich history of coronations.
During the talk, we explored fascinating topics such as the coronation chair, the crown, and other significant aspects related to King Charles' upcoming coronation. Our residents were thrilled to have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the memoirs of past coronations from 1937 and 1953, as well as learning about the coronation oath and what to expect from the ceremony, including the music, guests, and pageantry.
Easter Party at Mount Vale
We had an Easter Party here at Mount Vale and invited Friends and Family. The Chefs made wonderful Cakes and we had lots of Sweet Treats. Everyone enjoyed a good giggle and played games. Harry and Mary along with their families really enjoyed spending quality time together celebrating Easter, especially the props!
Rosedene Nursery children visit Mount Vale
We had the nursery children from Rosedene Nursery come visit us over Easter to do an Easter Egg Hunt in our Gardens.
The children visit us weekly here for our ‘Reading corner’ and absolutely love coming in. Our Residents had great fun watching them scramble round looking for the eggs and checking out the insects!
We held a colouring competition and residents chose 3 pictures and awarded prizes, which thrilled the children.
A Visit from Jack
Once again we had ‘Jack’ come to visit us here at Mount Vale. Jack is one of many therapy dogs from ‘Therapy dogs nationwide’. Jack was a huge hit with our residents and sat very patiently while everyone game him cuddles.
Therapy dogs have been proven to improve general health and wellbeing, movement and coordination which is why we include them into our activity schedules here at Mount Vale. We also have Bambi who comes into work with Becky, our Activities Coordinator, so all of our residents are familiar with her and look forward to her visits.
Happy Birthday Brenda!
Brenda is celebrating her 90th Birthday today. Brenda was thrilled with her cake and gifts and enjoyed all Staff and Residents singing Happy Birthday to her. Brenda is enjoying all of the attention and is looking forward to Birthday Drinks this afternoon along with her friends.
A visit from South Otterington School Children
Today we have had our weekly visit from the South Otterington School children. Our residents really enjoy these visits and enjoy lots of different activities while they are here. The children really look forward to coming and are very inquisitive!
